Chapter 130 Useless, Confused

[The blueprint drawn by Hongjun is completely beyond your imagination. You widen your eyes, as if you have never really known this seemingly kind and law-abiding old Taoist...]

【"how?"】

[Hongjun obviously saw your shock, but he asked with a smile: After hearing this, do you think I am a villain? ]

【Is not it?!】

[You are at a loss. If Hongjun really intends to implement his plan according to the blueprint, then he is a man who slaughters all living things for his own selfish desires, and then deceives the world, packaging himself with blood on his hands as a hero who saves the world...]

[If this isn't the ultimate villain boss, then who is? ]

[“See! That’s why I didn’t want to tell you this, because you are a sentimental person and you always like to make rash judgments without knowing the whole story!”]

[Hongjun rarely begins to rebuke you in a serious tone: If you say I am a villain, then what is the Third Ancestor? A super villain?]

[“The Three Ancestors slaughtered all living beings for their own selfish desires. If they really achieved enlightenment, what that would mean, you should know…”]

[What does it mean? It means that all living things will never be able to rise again, and the Three Ancestors will enslave the wild world until the end of the Nirvana! ]

[“Then tell me, what can I do to stop this?”]

[Hongjun questioned you, but you hesitated to speak, because you knew that since the Third Ancestor was bound to achieve enlightenment, Hongjun had no room for maneuver and he had no other options.]

[Only magic can defeat magic! Facing the three ancestors who are bound to achieve enlightenment, Hongjun can only use enlightenment to deal with them. ]

【but……】

【“But… you have selfish motives!”】

[You retorted: You speak so righteously, isn't it just to realize your ambition of becoming a Buddha? ]

[“In order to defeat the Third Ancestor who was about to achieve enlightenment, you achieved enlightenment first. In order to stop the Third Ancestor from enslaving all living things, you enslaved all living things first. In order to stop the Third Ancestor from slaughtering the prehistoric world, you slaughtered the prehistoric world first… It was all out of selfishness!”]

[“So why should I be selfless?”]

[Faced with your rebuttal, Hongjun sneered: "You have no selfish motives and are dedicated to the public good. What do I want? Do you think everyone is as heartless as you?"]

[“It is true that I do care about all living things, but I don’t need to sacrifice my own interests. For me, isn’t the best direction to take into account both public and private interests?”]

[“I eliminated the three ancestors who deserved death for the sake of all living things, and then I was rewarded with enlightenment in a reasonable way. What’s wrong with that?”]

[You are becoming more and more speechless, because Hongjun is right. No matter what his selfish motives are, at least he is really saving the world from the Three Ancestors. Such a great contribution can only be rewarded by helping him achieve enlightenment...]

[Hongjun continued: If I become a Taoist, I will never enslave all living things, because I have no interest in that. I will even protect the world and give back to all living things.]

[“All of us below the Third Ancestor are slaves. The life and death of slaves depends entirely on their likes and dislikes. I will never allow this.”]

[“So after I attain enlightenment, anyone who kills or harms life will be punished immediately by the Dharma!”]

[“The Third Ancestor blocked the skills and resources and did not allow the slaves to become powerful. So after I become a Taoist, I will preach the Tao in the wild. Everyone can learn my Taoism!”]

[“The Third Ancestor is above all living things, so after I achieve enlightenment, I will create a world where all living things are equal!”]

【“…”】

[Thinking of the grand scene in the future, Hongjun couldn't help but pause, and looked at you with a smile: "And in order to achieve all this, it is only necessary to pay the price of the lives of some creatures, and Luohou needs to slaughter all the spirits..."]

[“These are all necessary sacrifices! Moreover, even if I didn’t slaughter them, they would have died in the war between the three tribes. I just made the death of a group of dying people more meaningful. Instead of dying for the Third Ancestor’s plan to enslave all living things, why not die for me and for all living things in the future?”]

[Every word Hongjun said was full of cruelty and cold-bloodedness, and his image was completely reversed from the previous "good guy" to "old sinister guy"! ]

[But... he still doesn't seem to be a bad guy like the Third Ancestor, because although his purpose is not pure, it is really beneficial to the overall situation. The most important thing is that this is the only way...] [He ordered the evil corpse Luohou to slaughter all living things, so he is naturally not a good person, but he wants to eliminate the Third Ancestor in order to bring peace to the world, so he doesn't seem to be a bad person... He is not a pure good person, nor a pure bad person, neither black nor white...]

[“Those who achieve great things do not care about trivial matters. A free person like you will never be able to lead all living beings out of the dark era of the three tribes, and you will never be able to defeat the ancestors of the three tribes who are destined to achieve enlightenment... You are still too young!”]

[Hongjun mercilessly reveals your true nature as an elder: a willful, kind, wise, brave, willing to sacrifice yourself, but useless bird...]

[You are eager to argue, but you feel helpless inside, because you realize sadly that what Hongjun said is all true: freedom and kindness are your greatest qualities, but also your greatest flaws. You can never really save anything, including yourself.]

[In the face of the cruel reality, you cannot achieve the freedom that your nature desires by your own strength. Perhaps it is precisely because you cannot achieve it that you yearn for it so much...]

【…】

[You were silent for a long time before you asked woodenly: "...Can you really win by sacrificing others like this?"]

[“I could have…but now I can’t.”]

[Hongjun sighed at your question, and a look of pessimism and confusion appeared on his face.]

【"Why?"】

[You were originally in a state of panic, but you couldn't help but panic: "You have already sacrificed so many people, is this all meaningless?!"]

【Why? Because we didn’t kill enough! 】

[Hongjun was helpless: Originally, he planned to let Luohou start to fight on the battlefield for a while, and then fight with the three ancestors after he developed.]

[However, the three tribes had too few slaves, so Luohou couldn't grow at all. Before he could capture enough true spirits, the three ancestors started to surround and kill him! ]

[Since the Third Ancestor failed in his siege this time, he will naturally be more cautious about Luohou's sneak attacks in the future, so Luohou will be the focus of attention. There is still no possibility that he will develop in the future...]

[After listening to these explanations, you are somewhat suspicious: Why was it that in the previous encounters with Luohou, you were able to kill enough of them until you gained the upper hand over the Three Ancestors? It was clearly the same routine.]

[After thinking about it, you suddenly realized: It’s because of yourself! ]

[The Luohou you met in the previous branch quests slaughtered the complete versions of the three tribes, so Luohou could gather the sufficient number by slaughtering them casually.]

[Since your birth, you have enlightened countless primitive spirits with your own bloodline, which is equivalent to robbing a large number of the three tribes' base. The slaves of the three tribes have shrunk significantly, resulting in Luohou not being able to kill enough people and unable to complete the early development work before being targeted by the three ancestors...]

[“So… it’s because of me?”]

[You suddenly want to laugh at yourself. You think you are kind and you think you can turn the tide, but you end up making things worse and Hongjun's perfect plan cannot be implemented.]

[I think, in the established history without my participation, Luohou could have killed the Third Ancestor with this method! ]

[And Hongjun can also easily kill the evil corpse Luohou who is hated by heaven and man according to the plan, and then release the true spirits of all living beings to refine the heaven and earth, forming an enlightened person without self-awareness, and then in the form of fooling him, he can indirectly control the prehistoric heaven and earth and achieve enlightenment...]

[You understand, you understand everything! ]

[You laughed at yourself, then sat down in confusion under the tree where you were born, looking up at the simple bird's nest.]

[“What is the meaning of my existence? I am not needed in anything, and everything will be solved... Then why do I have to go back to the beginning again and again?”]

[You begin to question the meaning of your own existence: since you are not responsible for saving the world, why does the existence in the dark make it so difficult for you? ]

【As for freedom? 】

【Ha! It's nothing but a bubble. 】

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(End of this chapter)